Made MySQL the default named pipe name.

Now SHOW COLLATION is used upon connection to retrieve the full list of charset ids.

Inserting DateTime causes System.InvalidCastException to be thrown. (Bug #7132)

Integer "out" parameter from stored procedure returned as string. (Bug #6668)

Int64 Support in MySqlCommand Parameters. (Bug #6863)

Changed the name of the test suite to MySql.Data.Tests.dll.

Added Ping method to MySqlConnection.

Invalid query string when using inout parameters (Bug #7133)

Errors in parsing stored procedure parameters. (Bug #6902)

Added ServerThread property to MySqlConnection to expose server thread id.

InvalidCast when using DATE_ADD-function. (Bug #6879)

Fixed problem where multiple resultsets having different numbers of columns would cause a problem.

MySqlDateTime in Datatables sorting by Text, not Date. (Bug #7032)

MySqlDataReader.GetChar(int i) throws IndexOutOfRange exception. (Bug #6770)

An Open Connection has been Closed by the Host System. (Bug #6634)

Fixed Invalid character set index: 200. (Bug #6547)

Exception stack trace lost when re-throwing exceptions. (Bug #6983)

Fixed major problem with detecting null values when using prepared statements.

Installer now includes options to install into GAC and create Start Menu items.

Connections now do not have to give a database on the connection string.

Test suite fails with MySQL 4.0 because of case sensitivity of table names. (Bug #6831)